Recent News

  • Abigail LaPlaca named RLL 2019 Commencement Speaker
    5/23/19
    Abby LaPlaca, 2015 summa cum laude graduate with a B.A. in Spanish, will be featured guest speaker at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures commencement celebration on May 17, 2019.
  • Paige Melin wins Fulbright Award to Senegal
    4/26/19
    Paige Melin, 2013 UB BA grad with a double major in English and French Language and Literature, has won a Fulbright English Teaching Award in Senegal for 2019-2020.
  • Elizabeth Scarlett elected to MLA forum executive committee
    5/9/19
    The Modern Language Association has announced the election of Professor Elizabeth Scarlett to a five-year term on the executive committee of the forum Transdisciplinary Connections--Religion and Literature. We wish Professor Scarlett congratulations and best wishes on her new leadership role!
  • Joelle Carota wins prestigious Sigma Delta Pi research award
    4/3/19
    RLL PhD student Joelle Carota has been awarded a Sigma Delta Pi Research Grant for 2019. She will use the $2000 award to support her dissertation research this coming summer.
  • Publication of "Perec en Amérique" Announced
    3/25/19
    The publication of Jean-Jacques Thomas’ new book, Perec en Amérique (Bruxelles : Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2019), is announced for April 4, 2019, having already gone into pre-sale  in many bookstores in France and Europe. The book is presented on the web page of its European publisher and the introductory pages are available for consultation  at https://lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/catalogue/perec-en-amerique/ . 
  • Marie-Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt " Published
    3/25/19
    Congratulations to RLL Associate Professor of French Christian Flaugh and Assistant Professor of Caribbean Literatures and Culture (Caifornia State University, Bakersfield) Lena Taub Robles, who recently published Marie-Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt (Leiden/Boston: Brill) in Brill's  “Caribbean Series." It is an extremely well researched book that, among many relevant aspects of the analysis of this performing text, contributes to a detailed exploration of the many difficulties in producing an English-speaking adaptation of this Caribbean theater that is rooted in a different system of symbolic representation and a language rich in regional idiosyncrasies far from the vehicular simplicities of French and English.